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Originally Posted by emellaich
I wonder how much power the touch screen takes? You could freeze the screen image with the speech controls -- thus saving power usage from page turns. However you would need to keep the touch sensors active to recognize touches.
Alternately a power-on when speaking with the screen off could pause speaking and wake up the device with the controls enabled.
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Page turns don't consume much power compared to TTS itself when that is in operation. Besides you could always manually turn on the screensaver if you wanted to and realize whatever power savings that confers. The problem is that it turns on automatically.